In this episode, we'll talk to Dr. Nan McMurry, historian and head of collection development at the University of Georgia libraries, to see what lessons we can take from early outbreaks.
Read the transcript for this episode here.
SHOW NOTES:
- CDC: Read about the 1918 flu pandemic
- Harvard University: Read about the 1721 smallpox outbreak in Boston
- Hospitalfield: Read Sophie Byatt's essay on plague hospitals
- International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2008: Read more about quarantine through history
- NPR: Read about yellow fever's impact on New Orleans
- Past & Present, 1988: Read about cholera in 19th-Century Europe
- World History Encyclopedia: Read more about the Black Death
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